psychedelicious said:
I did my extraction largely my bathroom, with an old hotsauce bottle and an empty milk jug (and of course the chemicals needed). It got me from raw plant material to sloppy crystals (they COULD be purified further, but I am blasting off just fine and without any harshness to the smoke without cleaning them up) in a couple hours. If anybody is interested, I will post the method I used or link to it if that's not kosher. Really simple, your grandma could do it. The worst part is finding the plant material you need, but the whole process is SO worth it.
You are officially my new favorite person on Bluelight. I tried the quicktek straight-to-base extraction and got jack all-- like, 50mg from 100g of bark. I had given up on it, and just assumed I had shitty bark, since I bought it pre-ground from a vendor I'd never heard of before because there was a bit of a savings over some other well-known sellers of entheogenic plants. I figured I'd just gotten fucked for being a cheapskate.
So I tried the tek you posted with 100g of my leftover bark. I got 500mg on the first pull. I assume I'll still get more on a second one, but I haven't done it yet. I'm too fucking psyched at having enough DMT that I can actually get something out of smoking it! I tried some earlier, and I'm left with questions.
I like to dive right into things, so I popped 100mg into my Machine (which I made from an airline bottle of Grand Marnier and some choreboy) and lit up. I heard crackling and popping... and really nothing. I got one lungful of smoke, and went somewhere, but really no higher than when I smoked 25mg or so from the first shitty extraction I did. There was amazingly little smoke. I got like one toke then nothing. Did I hold the lighter too close and torch my DMT?
I waited about an hour and thought about it, and decided maybe my smoking technique was shit. I loaded up 60mg, then held my lighter to the neck of the bottle in short bursts until the dmt sort of melted down into the choreboy, and THEN lit up and tried to sort of suck in hot air but not the flame. My lungs felt like they got hit with a hammer, and I looked down, and the bottle was full of smoke. I excitedly blew out my toke and took another, and got a second huge lungful, and then I was off to the races. I wouldn't call it a breakthrough, but it definitely felt like I had the universe shoved up my ass!
Does my smoking technique need work? This is really my first experience with smoking freebase. Could someone more knowledgeable post some tips at smoking spice out of a Machine so that a n00b like me can make sure he's not wasting any?
I'm almost afraid of the stuff now. I look at my Machine and get this nervous feeling in my stomach.

In a way I think I'm lucky that I burned most of that 100mg instead of smoking it! There was a cool moment where I looked into the pyrex pan I'd evapped the naptha in. There were white streaks and swirls from where bits of the oily spice had stuck to the pan, and it felt like I was staring into some kind of simulated picture of the Milky Way. Pretty appropriate given the effects of smoking the stuff.
Can you tell I'm excited?